Malinda and Teresa had many long talks that often resulted in both of them crying but Marlin told them that was good. It meant emotions were being let...out and dealt with. The two women couldn't argue since they felt the closest they had for over seven years.Tess and Marlin had many talks too, mostly with Tess sitting on Marlin's lap playing with his hair and delving into his "pretty" mind. Of course they talked about privacy and emotions and even sex so far as a seven-year-old could. Thing is, his mum is in the right er department or whatever to help Tee.”“Ah. I didn’t know that. Does she know?”“Tee? She knows they are both cops, but she doesn’t know what they do. I only found out sort of by accident. Blish was telling Higgis last year, and I just happened to over hear them talking. They weren’t part of Tee’s circle back then of course, so I didn’t think anything more of it.”We had been walking towards the bus stop as we talked, but there were still a lot of students around. Mom said she had been told the party was supposedly a way to apologize for all the parties you went to and did not bring a gift. Still everyone brought you a present. I know I brought one. I can't believe you never showed up. Everyone thought you were such a dick to have a huge party and then not come. When you stopped talking to people right after that, some said you could not deal with the guilt and were too chicken to face everyone. Others said you went crazy. I don't remember what I said. She could wash off after she got back to the room. I was going to order a bath for our room, so it would be ready for her when she arrived.Osso was able to shrink her body down to about 4.5 inches, so she could make it all the way if I was right about the diameter of the pipe. We helped her to get started and waited until she disappeared. Once she was out of sight, we ran as fast as we could to where we had left our clothes. We decided, on second thought, to leave them for the time being and.